Bob's Stuff is a (usually) one-man
game
development venture started by Bob Smith
in 2005 with the release of Stranded for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum - a
game originally written back in the late 1980's by the much younger
teenage bedroom-coder version of myself. Despite being a professional
programmer since 1994, and employed professionally in the games
industry since 1996, I still find that I need another outlet for my
programming
ventures and games ideas, and this is it
I've now written 36 games in total - 18 for the ZX
Spectrum, 14 for the ZX81,
and 4 for iOS.
Some are original
titles,
some are conversions of modern titles from mobiles & consoles, and
others are versions of
games which were never available (or were really bad!) for the Sinclair
machines back in
their '80s hay-day
Follow the links below to browse all my games, read my blog, follow me
on
social media, or just say hello
Enjoy!
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All my games can
now be found on Itch.io
This great site allows me to host all my games in one place, and frees
me from the pain of HTML when I used to have to update this site to add
a
new game.
It also provides a simple & straightforward method of paying for
content, without the delays of me having to personally handle each
request
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As well as my
games I have a WordPress blog
covering various aspects of 8-bit Z80 machine code,
from the point-of-view of my experiences in writing games for the ZX81
and ZX Spectrum. If you're interested in learning about coding
for either of these machines, or curious of the methods used, head over
and take a
look. I'm always happy to answer questions on my posts, and
requests for future topics
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In social-media
circles, I'm most active on Twitter,
although I'm not that active
(I won't be flooding
your news feed with cat pictures, or what I had for lunch) Take a
look for
work-in-progress updates, polls, and retweets of things (mostly retro
gaming related) which I find interesting,
but don't expect political opinions and such like - it's about the
games! (Please don't be upset if I don't follow back - it's
nothing personal, I just like to keep my news feed light)
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I'm not a fan of Facebook -
that's just me - but billions of people are, so I've a page
on there also. It isn't updated as regularly as Twitter, but does
allow for longer-form posts when I do get around to it
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If
you need to contact me for any reason, please use this email
link. I'll try to reply in a timely manner, but it might take a
couple of days, or until the following weekend, whenever I can find the
time to give a proper response.
Remember to add the
email address to your spam-filter white-list to avoid missing anything
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